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Deuteronomy 29:24 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?” "
Deuteronomy 29:24
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22 The generation to come—your children who will rise up after you, and the foreigner who will come from a far land—will say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick,
23 that all of its land is sulfur, salt, and burning, that it is not sown, doesn’t produce, nor does any grass grow in it, like the overthrow of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath.
24 Even all the nations will say, “Why has the LORD done this to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
25 Then men will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt,
26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods that they didn’t know and that he had not given to them.
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Deuteronomy 29:1
"These are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, in addition to the covenant which he made with them in Horeb."
Deuteronomy 29:2
"Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;"
Deuteronomy 29:3
"the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders."
Deuteronomy 29:4
"But the LORD has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day."
Deuteronomy 29:5
"I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet."
Deuteronomy 29:6
"You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God."
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